St. Landry democrat., 1887-12-17
In the United States Circuit Court At IH.

1t was a suit upon a contract between Il.
! coal company and the receiver, by which
/ was agreed that the railroad company Won
transport the coal Of the company at Ia
agreed upon If the price of mining a
vanced, the railroad company was to allow
| reduction in the rate of hauling cOrrespon'
| ing with the advance of price in minln.
| The master in the case held that this agre
ment was not binding upon the part of II
railroad company, on the ground that Il
price of mining in the district was under COZ
sideration, and not the price paid by the CO,
company. Judge Acheson Overruled thl~
and held that, as the price of mining az
vanced with this particular coal COMPANY
they were entitled to the reduction in freq!
rates corresponding.
1t is understood that two reports have ber'
presented to the President by the Pact
railroad commission, one signed by Mr.. "a
tison and the other by Messrs. Anderson an
Littler.
Representatives of the east-bOund roaG
met in Chicago recently, and made an al
tempt to advance export rates from ChlcaE'
twenty per cent. All were in favor exceli
and defeated the proposition on the grouln'
that an advance would shut it out Of ti"'
traffic via Baltimore.
Commander Rae of the Grand Army If
the Republic, arrived in Chicago day az
two ago en- route for Columbus, o., to at
tend meeting of the executive committee.
He said he would support the bill
of the pension committee of the Crane
Army Of the Republic, which pro
vides a pension for that large class of in
valid soldiers whose circumstances are such
that they cannot prove satisfactorily that
they are entitled to pension although 1t
may be we'll known that the malady from
which they suffer was the direct result of eN
posture during service in the army. He ex
pressed himself as confident Of the passage
of the bill at this session of Congress.
Governor Bodwell. of Maine, who was
taken suddenly sick at Brunswick, is suffer
ing from pulmonary congestion. His ply
sicians say he is in no danger at present
Mc*her Mary Frances Clark, superior gen
eral of the Order of the Sisters of Charity
of America, died at the mother house in
Dubuque county, Ia, recently. She founded
the Order of Sisters of Charity in this Coun-
try, establishing the first mother house in
Philadelphia in 1888. During the Know
Nothing riots in 1913 her convent was de
stroyed, and, in company with four other
sisters. she established the mother house in
Dubuque.
\ man named Long, a tield-laborer, with
his wife and three children have lived for
several years in a log cabin on the bank OF
Rowan creek. near kentOn, Ky. Some days
ago it was discovered that the bank of the
creek had caved in, carrying the cabin with
it into the water. None of the occupants
have been seen since, and it is supposed they
have been lost.
Lord Mayor Sullivan, who was convicted
of publishing in his paper. the Nation, ac-
counts Of proclaimed branches of the Ma
tional League, and sentenced to two months
imprisonment. has been removed to the
Tullamore jail in order to prevent his hold
ing daily evees, as he was doing in the jail
at Dublin.
The Vienna Fremden5lau says that the
Russian military measures on the frontier
are at variance with the general desire for
peace, and the hopes thereof caused by the
meeting of the Emperors of Germany and
Russia in Berlin. We must wait" says
the paper, 'tO see to what extent the Berlin
meeting will influence these measures, which
possibly were decided upon under different
apprehensiOns. The recent speech from the
German throne, in which the Emperor
showed that he was not inclined to disturb
&c J, Job s.,
Austria, but any further gathering of
Russians on our frontier will compel us to
take similar measures in order that we may
not be behind. Russja's preparations are
threatening and are totally unprovoked."
There is renewal in Berlin of the rIlmors
that Russia is concentrating military force
along the Austrian frontier. These rumors
have revived the feeling of uneasiness con-
corning Russia intentions, The Post SAYS:
THE reports of the assembling of the Rus
slams on the Galician frontier evoke appre-
tensions of blow against Austria. Whether
that blow-which is not intended with the
view Of attaining ends wherein Germany has
never opposed Russia, but for other, farther
reaching purposes-will admit Germanys
remaining at peace for any length Of time is
a question which, doubtless, Russia has long
since answered. A Berlin letter published
in the Vienna Politische Correspondent asserts
that the recent Russian cavalry movements in
the vicinity of the Austrian frontier were
due to the scarcity of forage in the districts
in which the cavalry had been stationed.
President Sad Garnet in an interview with
NJ. Clemenceau, insisted upon the necessity
of union Of all the Republicans in the
Chambers first, to show the foreigners that
Republicans can agree, and second, in order
that they may vote an honest and sincere
budget. M. Clemenceau fully Endorsed the
Presidents views. The accord between Presi-
dent Sadi- Carnot and NJ. Clemenceau is re-
garded as good omen of the future of the
republic.
Father Claver, who was canonized by the
Pope, was a distinguished Spanish mis-
sionary. He was born in 1872, and died at
Carthagena, South America, in 1854. He
labored for many years among the slaves,
and was known as the anost1e of the negroes.
1t is reported from st. Paul that a coal
famine prevails in Minnesota, the reason be-
ing that the population of Minnesota and
Dakota has increased in greater proportion
than the supply of coal Many of the smaller